I know I shouldn't, but I can't resist xD
Yeah i'm making this first chapter as a reminder to continue this series, may not update for a while after this. Don't hurt me! hides
Waves crashed against the rock solid wall as a young woman watched. She sat on the Port Royal battlement, wishing to see the familier ship she hadn't seen in over two years. Her auburn hair was tied up in a loose knot and was blowing in her face but she didn't notice.
Ever since Jack and Lily Sparrow dropped into her life Elizabeth Swann was restless. She didn't sleep well, she never did anything in society anymore and she wished all the time to see pirates of all things. As long as they weren't dead.
After Jack and Lily had left Elizabeth went along with her life, trying to forget about the disgusting pirates, as her father called them, but she couldn't. Nor could Will, who had gone back to the blacksmithy. They remained best friends but both had a hole in their hearts that someone needed to fill, and they both knew who.
Eventually though Elizabeth's father had gotten sick of her moping and decided to send suitors her way. She hated all of them except for one, who's name was Nathen. He reminded her a lot of Jack but with the pride of James Norrington. She was due to be married to him in 2 months.
She sighed and on reflex her hand drifted to her finger, where the ring Jack gave her rested. Her thoughs drifted to the night on that island, when she willingly kissed a pirate. She danced with a legend and taught him a song he didn't know. Then she lost him. He never loved her anyway, he was a pirate while she was a governors daughter.
'He gave me a ring though...that means something right?'
'It doesn't matter. I'm getting married to Nathen remember?'
'But what if he comes back?'
A clanging noise behind her startled Elizabeth out of her thoughts. She looked and gasped when she saw a very annoyed looking Will surrounded by naval men, chains around his wrists.
"Will! Why is this happening?" She asked running up to him.
"I don't know." Will grumbled. "I was working on my new sword when they broke in and dragged me down here."
A crowd started gathering and Elizabeth heard her father yelling. "Make way. Let me through!" He was stopped by two Navy men blocking his way. Outraged he turned to the man standing in the wings.
"How dare you! Stand your men down at once! Do you hear me?"
The man turned and Elizabeth briefly recognized him from somewhere, an old aqquaintence who used to to visit her father perhaps?
"Governor Weatherby Swann, it's been too long." He smiled forcefully.
"Cutler Beckett?"
"It's Lord now actually."
Governor Swann glared at Beckett and waited until the soldiers unblocked his way, then made himself over to Beckett. "Lord or not you you have no reason and no authority to arrest this man."
"Oh in fact, I do." He snapped his fingers and a creepy looking man stepped forward with a box. Beckett opened the box, pulled out a paper and handed it to Swann who read it.
"This warrant is for Elizabeth Swann..." Governor Swann said in disbelief. Elizabeth's eyes widened and suddenly she was clapped in chains beside Will, who growled at the Navy men.
"On what charges?" She snapped angrily. The last crimes she had commited had happened over two years ago.
"Oh is it? That's annoying, my mistake." Beckett took the paper back and pulled out another. "Ah here is Mr Turners. And I also have one for a Mr James Norrington, is he present?"
"Commadore Norrington resigned his commission some months ago." Swann said distractedly while reading the warrent.
"I don't believe that is the answer to the question I asked."
"Lord Beckett, in the category of questions not answered-" Will began angrily but Elizabeth cut him off. "We are under the jurisdiction of the King's governor of Port Royal and you will tell us what we are charged with."
"The charge, is conspiring to set free a man convicted of crimes against the Crown and Empire and condemned to death for which the..." Govorner Swann trailed off in horror.
"For which the punishment, regrettably, is also death." Beckett smirked. He walked closer to Will and narrowed his eyes. "Perhaps you remember certain pirates named Jack and Lily Sparrow."
"Captain." Both of them growled. Images of both the pirates flew through their heads at lightning speed.
"Captains Jack and Lily Sparrow." Elizabeth repeated.
"Captains Jack and Lily Sparrow...yes I though you might." Turning to the Navy men Beckett motioned for them to take the prisinors away. Elizabeth glanced back at the ocean, willing the Black Pearl to appear, but she knew it was fruitless.
'Help.'
Lily Sparrow snorted out of her sleep and shot up in alarm. She could have sworn she heard someone calling for help but all she saw was Gibbs on deck with a bottle of rum and Marty wandering around.
Sighing she leaned back into the crows nest. She had a vivid dream about Turner again, and not Turner Sr. Blushing she remembered all the gory details and was glad Jack wasn't on board to see.
"Gibbs shut it!" She barked when she heard him singing. Hearing a lot of flapping she turned and ducked when a flock of crows past her, towards the pirate prison they were currently docked beside. Jack had been inside for almost a week, doing whatever he decided to come here for, so she was in charge for the time being. Something she was handling lazily.
"Jack better get here soon, it looks nasty over there." Gibbs shouted.
"Aye." Lily replied quietly. She suddenly wished Anamaria was here to talk to, but about a year back she decided to jump ship and make her own way as a captain. Looking down at the crew she noticed one of the African crew members talking to a crowd. The crowd was the African crew they had aquired in Madagascar a few months proir. Lily didn't trust them, they whispered to much. Something that reeked of mutiny.
Thunder clapped in the distance as Lily stood up and slid down a rope onto the deck. She walked past the crowd, who stopped whispering automatically, and grabbed the helm to start heading closer to the island.
"Captain why are we heading closer?" Gibbs asked worriedly.
"Because Mr Gibbs, Jack won't be traveling far in that coffin of his." She pointed out to see and Gibbs saw Jack, rowing a coffin towards them. He hustled over to the ladder and held his hand out for Jack, but he got a skeleton leg in return. Jack meanwhile hopped on to the deck with a flourish.
"Not quite according to plan." Gibbs commented while throwing the leg away. Cotton caught it and handed it to Lily, who grimaced and tossed it over board. Jack walked by her and gestured for her to follow so she did.
"Complications arose, ensued, were overcome." Jack replied heading towards his cabin.
"You got what you went in for, then?" Lily asked.
Jack held up a piece of cloth for her and Gibbs to see then was stopped short by an angry looking crew. Gibbs caught up with them and frowned. "Captain the crew, meaning me as well, were expecting something a bit more...shiny. What with the Isla de Muerta going all pear-shapes, reclaimed by the sea and the treasure with it."
"And the royal navy chasing us wherever we go." One of the African men barked.
"And the hurricane!" Marty piped up. Lily glared at him in which he shrugged. So she turned back to the crew in annoyence.
"Shiny?"
"Aye, shiny."
"Is that how you're all feeling then? That perhaps the ol' Sparrow's aren't serving your best interests as captains?" Jack asked. Dispite how calm he sounded Lily could hear the growl in it. She was feeling it too, when a crew isn't satisfied with their captain it becomes dangerous. Something they didn't need...again.
"Awk, walk the plank." Cotton's parrot squawked.
"What'd the bird say?" Pulling out his pistol Jack aimed it at Cotton's parrot. Lily rolled her eyes and put Jack's arm down.
"Do not blame ze bird." The same African man sniped. "Show us, what is on that piece of cloth there."
Jack held up the cloth again, this time for Lily to grab, but as soon as he did Jack the monkey climbed down the ropes and snatched it from him. It ran for about three steps before Lily took out her pistol and shot it.
"You know that don't do no good." Gibbs pointed out.
"It does me."
Marty had hustled over to the cloth and picked it up. He looked at it, confused, for a moment then looked up at everyone. "It's a key."
"No, much more better! It is a drawing of a key." Jack replied, grabbing the cloth back. He held it up for everyone to see and Lily swore it looked familier. A key with two ends, she remembered a key like that somewhere.
"Gentlemen, and woman, what do keys do?"
"Keys...unlock tings?" The African man replied.
"And whatever this key unlocks, inside there's something valuable. So, we're setting out to find whatever this key unlocks!" There was an unmistaken look of greed in Gibbs eyes when he said the word "valuable".
"No." Jack smiled. When everyone looked confused he continued, "We don't have the key, we can't open whatever it is we don't have that it unlocks. So, what purpose would be served in finding whatever need be unlocked, which we don't have, without first having found the key what unlocks it."
As usual everyone had to think about what Jack just said for a moment, or atleast until they were less confused, and soon everyone was nodding in agreement. Lily however narrowed her eyes at Jack. It had dawned on her after Jack had made his little confusing speech who's key that was, and what chest it belonged to.
"So, we're going after this key!"
"You're not making any sense at all mate." Gibbs looked even more confused but it passed when he realized Jack was just being...Jack.
"So do we have a heading?" Marty asked.
Jack nodded and pulled out his compass. He stared at it for a moment, while twirling his finger in the air, then landed on a general east direction. Lily looked at the compass as well and almost laughed when she saw it spinning around without stopping, except to change direction.
"Captain?"
"Come on. Snap to and make sail, you know how this works." Jack shooed everyone away from him and continued his way to his cabin, Lily followed. She had an un-yeilding need to ask Jack if he was out of his mind.
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